Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Despite those gains, the market still trails the November 2017-2019 average by 20%, with notable regional variation: the South and West are far closer to pre-pandemic levels than the Midwest and Northeast. Compared with the typical November from 2017 to 2019 before COVID-19, the South saw the smallest gap in inventory, down just 1.4%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Guaranteed Rate Affinity was formed in 2017 through a partnership between Rate , formerly branded as Guaranteed Rate , and Anywhere Real Estate , formerly known as Realogy. Guaranteed Rate Affinity announced a promotion on Tuesday as the joint venture company named 22-year industry veteran Mark Rawls as vice president of mortgage lending.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Buehler, a two-time World Series champion and All-Star, debuted with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2017. ERA is also partnering with Boston Red Sox pitcher Walker Buehler for a social media series called “On the Move” that highlights his career milestones. “We are proud to be part of that classic piece of Americana.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Lindblom also spent five years at Stearns Wholesale between 2012 and 2017 as the managing director of national fulfillment and operations. Lindblom has also held the COO post at First Guaranty Mortgage Corp., Glenn Stearns Kind Lending and Planet Home Lending.

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JUNE 20, 2024

The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) is calling on both houses of Congress to adopt a mortgage interest credit as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is currently set to expire in 2025. The 2017 law also made interest from home equity loans non-deductible except for when the money is applied to home improvements or renovations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

From 2017 until 2023 he served as the CEO of Broadstone Net Lease. Keller Williams has built a global position and an incredible culture of growth and entrepreneurial achievement, and I am thrilled to be part of its next chapter and to serve and support the entire Keller Williams family, Czarnecki said in a statement.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Between January and September 2024, the average seasonally adjusted annual rate of multi-family completions reached 606,000 units, up from 445,000 units in the same period in 2023, and higher than the 2017-19 pre-pandemic average of 359,000 units. to more than 49 million units by fall 2025, which would be 6.7%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In January 2017, Altos recorded an average apartment rent in the city of $1,265. Using 2017, 2018 as a normal level, delivery should start to look normal by 2027, 2028, so I think the market fundamentals will start to shift pretty soon. Data supports Knapp’s perspective. By January 2022, they had climbed to $1,612.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Divvy Homes arrived on scene in 2017 with intentions to give Americans an alternative path to homeownership via a rent-to-own model. Maymont Homes, headquartered in South Carolina, manages 10,000 single-family rental properties in its portfolio. Divvy Homes reportedly managed 7,000 homes as of late 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2025

Based on a review of the loan performed in 2017, HUD notified MetLife and the borrowers son of their potential liability under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986 […] for causing a false claim to be made regarding the eligibility of an FHA HECM loan, the entry said.

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Appraisal Buzz

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Colorados Golden Girls Law: Colorado became the third state, after Iowa in 2017 and Oregon in 2021, to eliminate restrictions on the number of unrelated individuals who can live together in a single home. In Washington, where rents climbed 42% between 2017 and 2023, H.B. These laws mirror Oregons 2023 legislation supporting microunits.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 14, 2025

Before Compass, Sheridan also operated her own PR firm, epgPR , from 2008 to 2017. The Georgetown University graduate joined Compass in 2018 as regional public relations leader on the corporate communications team. These leadership changes follow a trend of growth moves made by Compass in 2024.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Since 2017, weve had a pretty consistent pace of selling new offices, so that will continue in 2025, regardless of what the market gives us. On the franchise side, we will continue with a pretty rapid expansion of selling to the right franchise owners to open new brokerages throughout the county and overseas. Clear said.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Jet HomeLoans, founded in 2017 as a joint venture with Dream Finders, did roughly $2.3 Our intention is to provide better affordability to our customers who are buying Dream Finders homes and pass that along as more competitive offerings for consumers.” billion in mortgage origination volume in 2024.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Report Highlights: National Housing Survey 2024 Due to sharp rises in property prices and mortgage interest rates, a much larger percentage of consumers now feel it is difficult to locate affordable housing than when we originally posed the topic in 2017.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Despite this growth, inventory levels are still below levels in 2017 and 2019, Realtor.com said. In total, inventory levels were 10.8% higher than in January 2024, good for the highest level for any January since 2021. Home buyers and sellers are ending a longstanding stalemate, Realtor.com chief economist Danielle Hale shared in the report.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 5, 2025

a year earlier and the highest cancellation rate for this time of year since at least 2017, the firm reports. More than 41,000 home-purchase agreements fell through in January, equal to 14.3% of homes that went under contract that month, up from 13.4%

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

19, 2017, which went into effect later that year. 19, 2017,” FHA said in its announcement. The rule also reaffirms the interest rate used for the payment of debenture interest for HECM claims to align with the January 2017 rule. The updated rule builds upon several changes that FHA made to the HECM program on Jan.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 30, 2025

The inventory gap is also the smallest in the South (-10.0%) and West (-13.3%) when comparing inventory levels to pre-pandemic (2017-2019) levels. below than average levels from 2017 to 2019. Although they nevertheless recorded improvements, the Midwest (+16.8%) and Northeast (+7.8%) lagged behind. 10.7% -0.7% pp Northeast 7.8%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

A CFPB order issued on Wednesday mentions violations of mortgage servicing laws and of a previous 2017 order that addresses the same issue. Fay Servicing “failed to implement the 2017 measures and continued to break the law,” the CFPB claims.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 13, 2025

Nevertheless, inventories is still slowly returning to levels seen in 2017 and 2019. . +1.3% +49.0% Decembers year-over-year growth of 22% was little less than Novembers 26.2% growth, despite the fact that properties actively for sale increased for the fourteenth consecutive month.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The third-quarter 2024 study from ATTOM examines eligible low-income Opportunity Zones that Congress designated for economic revitalization under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. In this analysis, ATTOM examined 3,857 U.S. zones that had at least five home sales in the third quarter of 2024 and had enough data to analyze.

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Eyes on Housing

MARCH 19, 2025

Despite no growth in production in 2024, utilization rates have trended downwards since 2017 as sawmills have expanded production capability. Sawmill and wood preservation firms reported lower capacity utilization rates coupled with level production and capacity throughout 2024. Capacity.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

Pieklo: I actually started my career at AFR, ended up as one of the junior partners and sold AFR back in 2017. To start the conversation, Pieklo explores his recent hiatus from AFR and his return to the company. They asked me to take over as chief operating officer and eventually as president.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 1, 2024

Although inventories remains below pre-pandemic levels, the difference between the levels in 2017–2019 and the current levels is decreasing. Nevertheless, it’s still more than a week (8 days) shorter than the average house spent in July from 2017 to 2019, even if it was listed for five extra days in July 2023. and 47.6%, respectively.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2025

Peter Sciandra Fairway has led the way in digital mortgage closings, completing over 200,000 e-closings for our forward mortgages since 2017, said Peter Sciandra, EVP of reverse lending operations and secondary at Fairway.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2025

Thats the highest December percentage in records dating back to 2017, and is up from 15.1% Nearly 40,000 home-purchase agreements were canceled in December, equal to 16.2% of homes that went under contract that month. a year earlier.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

The draft Mortgagee Letter (ML) “proposes updates to HUD’s calculations for the payment of debenture interest for HECM claims and establishes a process for retroactively adjusting the calculation of debenture interest for claims filed on HECMs that became due and payable on or after September 19, 2017,” FHA said in an announcement of the proposal.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

in Q1 2022 and the lowest share since Q3 2017. The current homeowners positions on the mortgage-rate spectrum are broken out as follows: Below 6% : 82.8% of mortgaged U.S. homeowners have a rate below 6%, down from a record 92.7% in Q2 2022 and the lowest share since the Q4 2016. Below 5% : 73.3% Below 4% : 55.2% Below 3% : 21.3%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

But total housing starts were still at their lowest level since 2020, largely from a slowdown in multifamily construction, which fell to its lowest level since 2017. Realtor.com revealed that 1.36 million homes were started, exceeding household formations by nearly 400,000.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

Bank in 2017, Hummel served as senior executive vice president at Pacific Union and as senior vice president at CMG Financial , where he managed a team of several hundred mortgage loan originators. John Hummel Prior to joining U.S.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2017, Robert was awarded the Suzanne Kelly New Member of the Year Award by the United Trustee Association, has been named as a “Super Lawyer-Rising Star” several times, and actively serves on the Mortgage Bankers Association State Legislative and Regulatory Committee. Gibson, Jr.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

banks closed or consolidated, with rural Americans 10 times more likely to live in banking deserts than urban residents by 2017. Declining Bank Branch Access Rural homebuyers often rely on physical bank branches to secure mortgages, yet these branches are disappearing. Between 1986 and 2020, over 13,000 U.S.

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MARCH 4, 2025

Since December 2017, when MBA and the American Land Title Association released their model legislation, which was largely based on language from law enacted in Texas earlier in the year, there has been a model for state RON legislation, he said.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2024

Since our launch in 2017, Engel & Volkers Atlanta has become a premier real estate service provider in the metro area, guiding clients through every step in their home-buying journeys,” Christa Huffstickler, CEO of Engel & Volkers Atlanta, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The 2017 reduction in principal limit factors (PLFs) is largely seen as a negative from investors, while they cite the impending release of “ HMBS 2.0 ” as a potential positive. “For many investors, given the current state of volumes, it remains a niche market that doesn’t demand much attention.”

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Deals are falling through: Home purchases were canceled at the highest January rate in records dating back to 2017. Plus, the median home sale price rose 4.1% from a year earlier to $418,581. Thats 45% higher than the January before the pandemic. Roughly 41,000 home-purchase agreements were canceled, equal to 14.3% Thats up from 13.4%

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